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very simple and clear application of the Rules, and the evidence thus 

 far presented does not carry with it a conviction that greater con- 

 fusion than uniformity would thereby result. 



( 7) See also motion to table, page 69. 



Opinion written by Stiles. 



Opinion concurred in by 1 1 Commissioners : Allen, Bather, Blan- 

 chard, Hartert, Hoyle, Jordan (D. S.), Jordan (K.), Monticelli, 

 Skinner, Stejneger, Stiles. 



Opinion dissented from by 3 Commissioners, who vote to retain 

 Doliohim Ouoy and Gaimard, 1834, under Suspension of Rules: 

 Apstein, Handlirsch, Kolbe. 



Not voting, 4 Commissioners : Dautzenberg, Horvath, Roule, 

 Simon. 



CASE" OF FRETILLARIA 1842, FRITILLARIA 1851, FRITILLARIA 

 1872, AND FRITILLUM 1915 



Ouoy and Gaimard's (1883a, 10) original reference is to " notre 

 genre Fretillaire que nous avons rencontre dans plusieurs mers, notam- 

 ment aux environ du cap de Bonne-Esperance, ou il donnait a I'eau 

 une teinte rouge brun, bien que chaque individu n'eut qu'une ligne 

 de longeur." In a footnote on the same page they add : " C'est 

 probablement le genre Oikopleura de Mertens," 1830. 



In the same publication, Ouoy and Gaimard (1833a, 304-306, pi. 

 26 figs. 4-7) discuss the new species Oikopleura hifurcata which 

 presumably is the same form referred to on page 10 as " notre genre 

 Fretillaire," although the name Fretillaire is not mentioned on pp. 

 304-306. Regarding Oikopleura hifurcata they say (page 304) : 



etant sur les sondes de banc des Aiguilles, en vue de terre, et vis-a-vis la 

 baie d' Algoa, nous vimes — par intervalle, dans d' assez grands espaces, et 

 par zones, la mer devenir rouge brun. En y plongeant un filet d' etamins 

 nous reconnumes que cette couleur etait due a une enorme quantite de petits 

 animaux, longs d' une ligne or deux, etc. 



^Fretillaire Quoy and Gaimard, 1833a, 10, mt. Oikopleura hifurcata 1833a, 

 304-306, pi. 26 figs. 4-7 (Cape of Good Hope and Algoa Bay). 



Fretillaria Agassiz, 1842a, Acalaph^e, 4, (for Fretillaire 1833, hence) mt. 

 Oikopleura bifurcaia 1833. 



Fritillaria Huxley, i8sia, 595 (for Fretillaire 1833, hence) mt. Oikopleura 

 hifurcata 1833. 



Appcndiculaires Fol, 1872a, 460, 492, family contains Oikopleura, Fritil- 

 laria, Kowaleivskaia; 1874a, xlix, adds Appendicularia n. g. 



Fritillaria Fol, 1872a, 473-481, contains furcata (syn. Eurycercus pellucidus 

 Busch, 1851), megachile, aplostoma, formica, urticans, (type not desig- 

 nated). — Apstein, 1915a, 186 cites pellucida, 1851, as type. 



Fritillum Bartsch, igiSa, 145-146, tod. Fritillaria megachile 1872. (New 

 name for Fritillaria 1872 not 1851.) 



